Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Quote by Saint Augustine
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Saint Augustine Quotes
- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
- Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
- Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
- Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
- Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
- Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- The purpose of all wars, is peace.
Best Quotes
- Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.
- The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
- No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.
- People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
- Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
- It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
- Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
- I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
- Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.